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Hello Aaron,
Thanks for your reply. I will try it.
Greetings,
Pablo
2010/12/2 Aaron Morton <aaron@thelastpickle.com>
> I say yes to all your questions about what you can do with Solr.
>
> Some background the on the technology...
>
> Lucene is a Java library for doing full text search
> http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html
>
> Solr turns lucene into a HTTP server and adds a bunch of other features
> such as making it easier to do faceted search (e.g. navigating a product
> list) and clustering http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
>
> Lucandra is a set of storage plugins (or a fork, not exactly sure) for
> lucene so that it uses Cassandra as the storage engine rather than it's
> custom file format. AFAIK one of the big wins is that rather than
> continually build an index in the background which is periodically switched
> to the live index, it allows lucene to build and serve from the same index.
>
>
> Solandra is to Lucandra as Solr is to Lucene AFAIK.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Aaron
>
>
> On 03 Dec, 2010,at 09:45 AM, "Pablo D. Salgado" <pdsalgado@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Aaron and Jake,
>
> Thank you for your replay. I've worked with cassandra for 6 month but I
> never use Lucandra. I will try Lucandra, but I must ask (before start), Is
> possible reach my searching/pagination/sorting requeriments with Lucandra?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Pablo
>
> 2010/12/2 Jake Luciani <jakers@gmail.com>
>
>> You can also run Solr with Cassandra as the backend:
>>
>> https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra/tree/solandra
>>
>> </shameless_plug>
>>
>> -Jake
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:27 AM, aaron morton <aaron@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Have you considered using Solr / lucene for the search? It has a lot more
>>> search features, and it really good at faceted navigation through a product
>>> catalogue. It sounds like it would be a better fit for this task.
>>>
>>> You can build facets for your price ranges, do the product name thing and
>>> filter by some sort product state. Sort it any way you want and paginate
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 Dec 2010, at 08:03, Pablo D. Salgado wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to store "products" data (product.name, product.price,
>>> product.state and product.owner) in Cassandra 0.7 rc1.
>>> The problem is that I need to get "products" where product.price > XX
>>> AND product.price < XX AND product.name = XXX AND product.state = XXX.
>>> Also I need return the products with pagination sorted by one of their
>>> differents fields (product.name, product.price, product.state or
>>> product.owner). This is a for an "advance product search" functionality.
>>> - I know that I can do the WHERE clause with secondary index of Cassandra
>>> 0.7 but I can't make the pagination because I don't know how to implement
>>> the "previuos" functionality for Row Pagination. (I can use OPP if needed)
>>> - Also I know how to do pagination on columns but I can't do the WHERE
>>> clause with more than two fields because the result may be not sorted by the
>>> correct field.
>>> Do you have any idea how to do the data model to reach this requirement?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>
>>> Pablo D. Salgado
>>> psalgado@colpix.net
>>> http://www.colpix.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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